Flash, Novellas, Published fiction
All Their Favourite Stories
I’m delighted to announce that my novella in flash All Their Favourite Stories is now available from Ad Hoc Fiction – and you can buy it online from your most…
Slawka G. Scarso
Short stories, poems and the odd travel note // Racconti, poesie, e qualche appunto di viaggio
Stay as Long as You Need
From outside, from the shop windows, it looks like any ordinary shop, with the products neatly organised. The prams are in one corner, because they are bulkier, and the cots…
54.7754° N, 31.7890° E, April of 1940
I’ve been wanting to write a story on this topic for years now. I won’t spoil what it’s about because it would ruin the story and because I decided this…
National Holiday
I wrote “National Holiday” back when I was in Geneva, though the image of the orange plastic cups goes much further back in time. Thank you Full House Literary for…
The Sound of Dust
This piece was originally published by FlashFlood during National Flash Fiction Day. It’s been nominated for the Best of the Net Award for Fiction in 2022 [Edit from October 2022]….
How a Nuclear Accident Can Melt a Mixtape in Verona in 1986
I wrote this piece a few months ago, a play on acronyms and 1980s pop culture. It’s one of those occasions when I had great fun writing a story and…
École Rue Buffon, Paris, 1956
Back in 2011 I was in Torino presenting Il Vino in Italia, and I took some time to visit the show of a famous photographer. It was a selection of…
Like Soap
I wrote this micro last summer, when I was in Torre Chianca, a seaside town near Lecce. It was one of those occasions when you’re meant to do or write…
The Storming of Rome
This story is perhaps the most bizarre I’ve written so far, and yet the prompt is everything but fantasy. And many people who live in Rome will be familiar will…
